Re: Adding more disk space to SBS 2003

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You cannot mirror ide and sata

To mirror the drives must be identical size and type.

You would be much better off with disk imaging...image the old drive to the new one, then create the new mirror

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"JimA" <JimA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9C835763-C0EF-497B-BFB0-9581556C9BED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My server currently has a mirrored set of 60 GB drives (IDE) that contain the
C and D drives (system and data). Disk 0 is okay at 14 Gb free but my data
drive is only 11Gb free and growing because my Exchange store, SBS and other
extreaneous data is stored here. I would like to run my plan plan by the
forum and get any thoughts and/or ideas. The plan is:

1. Break the mirror on the current set and move the mirror to the new drive.
!! Can I mirror an IDE and SATA - I don't think I can -
2. After new mirror complete move the mirror to the new same size drive to

increase capacity.
3. Break the mirror again and remove the old drive.
4. Restore the mirror to the new drive and that give me complete new mirror
set.
5. The new mirror set will include C and D drives and simply be a larger
example of what existed before.
6. Leave the old drives available but unplugged in the server.
7. Test thoroughly and cutover after about a week.
8. After all okay - reformat both old 60 GB drives, assign new drive letters
(automatic?) and have 60GB (x2) available for the paging file, old .pst fiels
and misc large data files. What is best way to go about reformating these
drives to make them available for use?
9. I am considering mirroring these 2 drives for redundancy.

I currently have IDE and considering SATA (have onboard ctlr but have read
some bad things).

Any thoughts would be welcome.

Thanks

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Jim A.

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